I have to say I’m delighted with the current policy that allows us motorists to park unhindered on the pavements. This means that I don’t have to manoeuvre my car onto my drive anymore, I just bounce it up onto the newly tarred pavement and place it snugly against the fence.
Here in Newport the council have even obliged us by lowering the pavements at either end and putting lovely bubbled paving stones there to help us get a grip in bad weather.
And what a wonderful opportunity it is for the wheelchair user, the mothers with pushchairs, the partially sighted, the people with mobility problems to experience the sheer joy of stepping out onto the main road, savouring the adrenalin rush as they try to pick the precise moment to skip between the speeding vans and the dodgy girl on the mobile phone driving a boy-racer speedster (it’s a 20mph zone, but who takes notice of that???)
Marvellous!
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Published by Brendan Gerad O'Brien
Born in Tralee, Co Kerry, I now lives in Wales.
As a child I spent his summer holidays in Listowel, Co Kerry where my uncle Moss Scanlon had a Harness Maker’s shop which was a magnet for all sorts of colourful characters. It was there that my love of words was kindled by the stories of John B. Keane and Bryan MacMahon, who often wandered in for a chat and bit of jovial banter.
I started writing short stories based on those characters and had twenty published in various anthologies and eMags over the years. I’ve now self-published them in a collection called Dreamin’ Dreams which is available through Smashwords.com and Amazon.com, and also as stand-alone items through the same medium.
My first novel, a thriller set in Wales during WW2 called
Dark September is published by Tirgearr Publishing.
Gallows Field is my second thriller and set in Ireland during WW2, and is self-published with Amazon and Smashwords.com
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